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1
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Which general data storage category is managed in blocks within sectors and tracks and is controlled by a server-based operating system?

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Block Storage

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Which general storage category appears as local disks to the operating system and can be partitioned and formatted? This category can be used as the boot volume and common uses include file system, databases, transactional logs, SQL databases, and virtual machines (VMs).

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Block Storage

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Which general date storage category is where the data is managed by a file hierarchy and is mounted via the network to a client computer where it then becomes accessible for reading and writing.

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File Storage

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Which AWS service is an object storage built to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere?

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Amazon S3

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What is an AWS public service that allows you to upload objects into buckets and is designed to deliver 11 nines of durability?

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Amazon S3

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Which AWS storage service can be used for backup and storage, application hosting, media hosting, software delivery, and to host a static website?

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Amazon S3

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Which AWS Storage service has files stored in buckets which are considered root level folders?

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Amazon S3

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Which AWS storage service has unlimited storage availability and files can range in size from 0 bytes to 5 TB?

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Amazon S3

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9
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In Amazon S3 bucket names are unique?

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Globally

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10
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Amazon S3 buckets are created in which are of the AWS Global Infrastructure?

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Availability Zones

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11
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An Amazon S3 best practice is to create buckets in regions that are?

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Physically closest to your users to reduce latency

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12
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What are the 4 items that Amazon S3 objects are made of?

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  1. Key
  2. Value
  3. Version ID
  4. Metadata
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13
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What do you pay for when using Amazon S3?

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  1. Storage
  2. Requests
  3. Storage Management Prices
  4. Data transfer pricing
  5. Transfer acceleration
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14
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What are the 6 Amazon S3 Storage Classes?

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  1. S3 Standard
  2. S3 Intelligent Tiering
  3. S3 Standard-IA
  4. S3 One Zone-IA
  5. Amazon Glacier
  6. Amazon Glacier Deep Archive
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15
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Which S3 Storage Class is used for durable, immediately available, frequently accessed data that is stored in 3 AZs and has 4 nines of designed availability and 3 nines of SLA availability?

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S3 Standard

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16
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Which Amazon S3 Storage Class automatically moves data to the most cost-effective tier and is maintained in three AZs and have 3 nines of designed availability and 2 nines of SLA availability?

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S3 Intelligent Tiering

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Which Amazon S3 Storage Class is durable, immediately available, and infrequently accessed? This class is stored in 3 AZs with 3 nines of designed availability and 2 nines of SLA availability.

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S3 Standard-IA

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18
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Which AWS S3 Storage Class is lower cost for infrequently accessed data with less resilience? This class is stored in 1 AZ and has 99.5% designed availability and 2 nines of SLA availability.

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S3 One Zone-IA

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19
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Which Amazon S3 Storage Class is used for archived data with retrieval times in the minutes or hours? This class is stored in 3 AZs and has 4 nines of designed availability and 3 nines of SLA availability?

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S3 Glacier

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20
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Which Amazon S3 Storage Class is the lowest cost and is designed for long term retention? This class is stored in 3 AZs with 4 nines of designed availability and 3 nines of SLA availability.

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S3 Glacier Deep Archive

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21
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What does transfer acceleration do for Amazon S3?

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It speed up data uploads using CloudFront

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22
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What is an option in S3 that can be selected to where the requester pays for requests and data transfers and not the bucket owner?

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Requester Pays

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23
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What can be tagged in S3 to use in costing, billing, and security?

24
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What is used to trigger notifications to SNS, SQS, or Lamba in S3 when your buckets are impacted?

25
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What is a common use for Amazon S3 because it is simple and massively scalable?

A

Static Web Hosting

26
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What is used to copy objects across Amazon S3 buckets in different AWS Regions?

A

Cross-Region Replication

27
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What action must be taken in Amazon S3 to allow Cross Region Replication?

A

Versioning must be enabled at the source and destination

28
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What are the three reasons to use Amazon S3 Cross Region Replication?

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  1. Meet compliance requirements for storing data at greater distances
  2. Minimize latency for users who are closer to another AWS Region
  3. Backup copy of you data in another AWS Region
29
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What Amazon S3 action is used to copy objects across Amazon S3 buckets in the same AWS Region?

A

Same-Region Replication

30
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Which AWS Storage System provides persistent block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud?

A

Elastic Block Storage (EBS)

31
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An EBS volume is automatically replicated within its?

A

Availability Zone

32
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Which AWS storage system is where the data persists independently of the life of the instance and does not need to be attached to an instance?

33
Q

EC2 instances must be in the same ______ as the instance?

A

Availability Zone

34
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By default the EBS termination protection is turned _____?

A

Off and must be manually enabled

35
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What happens to Root EBS volumes on termination by default?

A

They are deleted

36
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What are the two types of EBS volume types?

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  1. EBS General Purpose SSD

2. EBS Hard Disk Drives

37
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Which EBS volume type is used for boot volumes, low-latency interactive apps, development and testing?

A

EBS General Purpose SSD

38
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Which EBS volume type is for high performance workloads and intensive NoSQL and relational databases?

A

EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD

39
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Which EBS Volume Type is used for big data, data warehouses, and log processing?

A

Throughput Optimized HDD

40
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Which EBS volume type is used for colder data requiring fewer scans per day?

41
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Which feature of EBS is used to capture a point-in-time of an instance and is stored on S3?

42
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What is the EBS snapshot deletion process designed to do?

A

Retain only the most recent snapshot in order to restore the volume

43
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EBS volumes are _____ specific but snapshots are ______ specific?

44
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What are root devices that are created from AMI templates stored on S3?

A

Instance Store Volume

45
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Which storage volume type is physically attached to the host, high performance local disks, and are ethereal?

A

Instance Store Volumes

46
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Which AWS Storage system is a file system connected over a network and is a fully managed service that makes it easy to set up and scale file storage in the Amazon Cloud?

A

Amazon Elastic File Storage

47
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Which operating system does EFS operate on?

A

LINUX only

48
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In Amazon EFS data is stored across ______?

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Multiple availability zones in a region

49
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In what AWS storage system to pay for what you use, can scale up to petabytes, is elastic as it grows and shrinks as you add and remove data? This system can concurrently connect 1 to 1000s of EC2 instance from multiple AZs.

A

Amazon EFS

50
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By default how many EFS file systems can be created per account?

51
Q

How can your on-premises Amazon EFS connect to AWS?

A

Using Direct Connect or AWS VPN

52
Q

Which AWS Storage system is a hybrid cloud storage service that gives you on premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage? This service seamlessly connects on-premises applications to cloud storage, caching data locally for low-latency?

A

AWS Storage Gateway

53
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What are the 3 types of AWS Storage Gateways?

A
  1. Tape Gateway
  2. File Gateway
  3. Volume Gateway
54
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Which AWS Storage Gateway is accessed using SMB, NFS, or S3 API?

A

File Gateway

55
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Which AWS Storage Gateway is a block device accessed using iSCSI?

A

Volume Gateway

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